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Arsene Wenger has called on football to be vigilant against the threats of
doping, corruption and match-fixing, warning that sport in general is full
of “legends who are, in fact, cheats”.

The Arsenal manager admits he has been surprised by the scale of Europol’s
investigation into match-fixing - which revealed that almost 700 games
across the continent might have fallen prey to match-fixers - and, though he
is confident English football is clean, believes it is time to protect the
game’s integrity.

In the same week as Europol announced the results of its inquiry, the former
president of Real Sociedad, Inaki Badiola,